Forty years ago today, Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on a group of Kent State students protesting the invasion of Cambodia, killing four of them. The reverberations of this tragedy were felt around the country, including at Williams (the website of the College’s archives has a timeline of this turbulent time here). That Monday […]
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Congratulations to Scott Nichols and Paula Melville, who won seats on the Adams Board of Selectmen in yesterday’s town election. A mere 17 percent of the town’s 5,994 registered voters bothered to turn out, a number Town Clerk Paul Hutchison justly described as “lousy.” It is no big secret that a lot of people are […]
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Guy Nicolucci, a writer for Conan O’Brien and formerly for The Daily Show, is spending some time in our midst and isn’t liking his food choices. He outlined his peeves for The Huffington Post. I’ve been spending a couple weeks hanging out in western Massachusetts, which is known as the Berkshires. It’s a region famous […]
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A “gnome home” sits tucked in the rocks at the top of Stone Hill at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown earlier today. It was one of the dozens of little dwellings made of found materials by visitors to the museum over the past week.
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The first Earth Day, 40 years ago, wasn’t just celebrated by the thousands who turned out for big rallies in cities like New York and Washington. It was also noticed here in the Berkshires, where students at places from North Adams State College to Lee High School set out to pick up litter from roadsides […]
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Last Friday, I checked off one of the items on my Berkshire to-do list when I took my daughter to the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield. In the seven years I’ve lived here, I’d never made it there, and was pleasantly surprised by what a fun, kid-friendly place it is. My three-year old enjoyed in particular […]
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Living in an age with reference books, the internet, and nature television shows, it can seem a silly question to ask, “what is a whale?” Simple, right: a big fat mammal that lives in the ocean, has a giant tailfin, needs to be saved etc. But it wasn’t always the case, and Tristin Lowe’s enormous […]
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On Monday it was announced that Craig F. Walker of The Denver Post, a photojournalist who worked for several years at The Berkshire Eagle in the 1990s, has won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography. His award-winning series tracing one soldier’s journey from high school student to Iraq War veteran can be seen here.
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